Machine and method for making candy



W. B. LASKEY.

MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MAKING CANDY.

APPLICATION FILED 00119, 1920.

Patented 00th 11 1921;

lNvEwur-t bywzwwm \UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented 0017.11, 1921'.

1,393,144.. I Application filed October 19, 1920'. Serial No 417,986.

pointed out and clearly defined. in the claims Be it known that- I, WILLIAM B. AfiKEY, at-the close of this specification. a citizen of the United States, resi ing at In the drawings,Figure 1 is a side eleva- Marblhead, county of Essex, State of tion of apparatus by which the invention is 60. Massachusetts, have invented a certain new practised, in. which the strip of candy travels and useful Im' rovement ilr,v Machines and in a substantially horizontal path. v Methods for akin a Candy? of which the Fig. 2 is a section on 1ine 2-2 of Fig. 1.v following is a 'spec' cation, reference being Fig. .3 is a side elevation showing the aphad therein to the accompanying drawings. paratus arranged vertically. .The invention relates to'a new and useful Referring now tothe drawings, 1 repre improvement in method. and machine for scnts a mass of'softened candy within a suit forming pulled candy. vThe invention has able container 2 having an outlet discharge especial reference to pulled candy in which passage 3 through which the candy is forced a large mass of pulled candy in its softened in the form of a column iwhich is gradually 15 state is drawn down from a'column of relareduced in size"by the drawing process and tively large cross-sectional area into attenu- 'is finally, in its reduced sizeypas sed between ated form. -When the candy is being drawn the rotary pulling members 5, 5. The said down to its intended diameter, the feed of pulling members 5, 5 are spaced apart fromthe forwardor drawndown portion mustbe each other sufliciently so as to allow'the pasat a much greater speed than the travel of sage of the strip or ribbon of candy in its the larger column of candy which is being attenuated form between said feed wheels drawn --down. There is a tendency'on acwhich have teeth or blades 6 which engage count of the increase in speed of the travel ,with the strip of candyto draw the strip... of .the attenuated portion to break it away These feed wheels are driven at a much from the portion which has hot yet been greater rate of speed than the speed of the brought down to the small size. The object discharge of the column .4 from the container of the present invention is to provide means 1, so that the column of candy will be graduwhereby the strip .will 'be quickly cooled as ally drawn down from the lar er cross-sec soon as it reaches the predetermined size, tion to the smaller'cross-sectidi i. 5'- thereby stiffening the column or strip at this Preferably, when the apparatus is arpoint and rendering it less liable to break ranged for a horizontal feed, or substanaway from the larger colunin. The sudden tially so, in order to prevent the larger chilling also stops any further reduction in column of candy from sagging, it has an- I size, and renders the portion ofthe candy underneath support for a considerable porwhich has been chilled much stronger than tion of its length between the point wherev To all whom it may concern:

cross-section, any desired variation in that which has not been chilled even though the unchilled ortion of the column 1s of much greater iameter than the chilled portion. I p

The invention consists substantially in subjecting the strip to aquick cooling process as soon as it reaches its predterm1npld t e size of the cross-section being produced by changing the speed of the pulllng. v The preferable method of thus cooling the strip -'1s by subjecting it toa' blast of cold air;

Another important feature of the .inven v tion resides in'the fact that the pullingdown apparatus engages only that portion it leaves the container 2'and the point where it reaches its final attenuated form. The means shown for thus supporting the candy consists of a traveling belt 7 running over the pulleys 8, 8 which rotate in a direction to cause the belt to travel in the same direction as the column of candy. The belt is provided with a series of cross strips 9 which furnish bearings .for the candy instead of having the candy rest directly on the 'surface of the belt. In order to prevent the. candy from sticking to the support the belt should travel. faster than the column of candy which is supported byit.

At the point when the strip. of candy has of the candy which has been strengthened by been drawn down to the sizendesired, it is chilling. 3 1 i subjected to a quick cooling treatment wh1ch The invention will be fully understood stifl'ens it to such "a degree'that it will no from the followingidescription when taken longer stretch and therefore will maintain a 19 in connection with the accompanying drawuniformi-size.-= The preferred @OOllIlgmeans ings and-the novel features thereof will be consists of a blast'of cold air, It 1s p referl siderable length of strip.

ead'from a chamber 10 through which a cold air blast passes, and these nozzles are disposed in such manner that they conver e toward each other and to the strip of can y '1 in the direction of the-travel of the strip, so

.15 that the blast will strike the strip of candy -at an angle and therefore spread over a con- When the apparatus 1s disposed in vertical position, as s own in Fig. 3, the supporting I belt; shown in Fig. 1 may be omitted, otherwise, the apparatus is the same as in Fig. 1.

What I claim is I I 5 1.' The method of forming candy which consists in pulling down warm pulled candy andfstopping the reduction in size by chilling it. 1

2. The method of fixing the size of a strip of candy which consists in chillin it at a predetermined point in its length w ile it is- 80 bein subjected to tension to reduce its.size.

3. he method of producing a strip off .nsoame candy of uniform size which consists in chill;

ing itat a predetermined point in its length while it is being subjected to tension to reduce 1ts size by a force applied to the portion of the candy which'has already been chilled.

4:. Themethodof forming strips'of pulled candy of uniform diameter consisting of drawing down a mass of pulled candy while in its warm plastic state into a strip of the desired size, and chilling it at about the point in its travel when it reaches the minimum size desired. 7

5. The process of treating pulled candy whichis being drawn down from a plastic mass to a strip form of uniform size, consisting of chilling the strip at the point in the drawing-down process when it has reached its desired minimum. size.

- 6. An apparatus for forming strips of pulled candy comprising a container for a mass of pulled candy in a plastic state, having a discharge orifice for a stream of the candy, gripping and drawing means located at some distance from the container and which grip the stream of candy and draw it down to the desired size, and means for applying a cold blast to the strip of-candy at a point intermediate the draw mechanism and the container.

In testimony whereof I aifix my si nature.

- WILLIAM B, LAS EY. 

